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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="10-218" title_number="10" title_name="Income Tax" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Taxable Income Calculations for Individual">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Only an individual who itemizes deductions on the individual’s federal income tax return may elect to itemize deductions on the individual’s income tax return.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Subject to subsection (c) of this section, an individual who elects to itemize deductions is allowed as a deduction the sum of the individual’s federal itemized deductions:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>limited and reduced as required under the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>further reduced by any amount deducted under § 170 of the Internal Revenue Code for contributions of a preservation or conservation easement for which a credit is claimed under § 10–723 of this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>further reduced by the amount claimed as taxes on income paid to a state or political subdivision of a state, after subtracting a pro rata portion of the reduction to itemized deductions required under § 68 of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “applicable amount” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$100,000 for a married individual filing separately; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$200,000 for all other filers.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>This subsection does not apply to a fiduciary.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>In the case of an individual whose federal adjusted gross income exceeds the applicable amount, the amount of itemized deductions otherwise allowable for a taxable year shall be reduced by 7.5% of the excess of the federal adjusted gross income over the applicable amount.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>This subsection shall be applied after the application of any other limitation on the allowance of any itemized deduction.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
